This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Simic, the Pulitzer ...

“I’m still amazed by all the vileness and stupidity I’ve witnessed in my life,” former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic once told the Cortland Review. It was this vileness and stupidity — and the ...

The way to become a poetry lover, according to the next U.S. poet laureate, Charles Simic: Find a poetry anthology, any one will do, at the library. Open it at random. Read aloud one stanza. You won't ...

Irreverent in tone and runic in breadth for nearly 30 years, Charles Simic’s oeuvre has held a special place in contemporary poetry. Yugoslav and American, comedian and tragedian, Simic once wrote ...